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Circo Infantil de Nicaragua - Francesca

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Nicaragua

Acrobat Francesca was a mujer de casa before becoming a circus artist. It was love that brought her here to the big tent, where she now splits her time between performances and day-to-day chores.
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Caption 2 [es]: y tengo diez años de andar trabajando aquí en el circo.
Caption 2 [en]: and I have been working here at the circus for ten years.
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Doña Coco - La Vida De Una Cocinera

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Nicaragua

Working as a cook/domestic worker on a construction site, Doña Coco is the first to get up in the morning and the last to go to bed at night. Her monthly salary of C$2,000 Córdobas really just covers “el arroz y los frijoles” (“rice and beans”) for her family. So, how does she provide clothing and all the rest for her five kids? Leonido, the interviewer, asks the tough questions.
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Caption 42 [es]: Me dejó mi marido hace diez años.
Caption 42 [en]: My husband left me ten years ago.
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4:41

Tierra Envenenada - Desminando - Part 3

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Honduras, Nicaragua

The effort to de-mine Central America is truly an international one, with assistance coming from the U.S., Germany, Spain, France, England, Japan, Canada and Sweden (who’s ambassador is featured here, speaking eloquent Spanish). Also we hear from soldiers on the pleasure of serving a mission of peace, as opposed to one of war.
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Caption 29 [es]: Después que Nicaragua sufrió una guerra civil de aproximadamente diez años...
Caption 29 [en]: After Nicaragua suffered a civil war of approximately ten years...
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2:38

Con ánimo de lucro - Cortometraje - Part 9

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Nicaragua, Spain

Not only does our filmmaker continue with his diatribe against the state of society as he finds it in Nicaragua, but the story takes an investigative turn. We find that not only doesn’t sponsored-child Christina del Carmen match the photo that had been supplied by Ayuda en Acción, she is also not yet enrolled in a school.
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Caption 9 [es]: Una alumna de catorce años de Manlleu
Caption 9 [en]: A fourteen-year old female student from Manlleu
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Con ánimo de lucro - Cortometraje - Part 8

Difficulty: difficulty - Adv-Intermediate Adv-Intermediate

Nicaragua, Spain Catalonia

Spain has never been a country afraid of divisive politics, and filmmaker Joan Planas has no fear of getting controversial when presenting his views of society, church and state. Note that the older gentleman is not speaking straight Spanish but Catalan, and the Spanish captions reflect not his exact words but are the same as the Spanish subtitles seen in white on the screen.
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Caption 11 [es]: Yo tengo setenta y dos años.
Caption 11 [en]: I'm seventy two years old.
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2:48

Con ánimo de lucro - Cortometraje - Part 6

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Nicaragua, Spain

Viewer Discretion Advised
Does graphic and violence-ridden television news that presents the worst aspects of a society also bring out the worst in its audience? Our filmmaker seems to think so, and believes that it is young viewers who pay the price when spectacle trumps thoughtful analysis and measured presentation.
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Caption 59 [es]: porque en las encuestas de los últimos años...
Caption 59 [en]: because in surveys of the last few years...
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Con ánimo de lucro - Cortometraje - Part 5

Difficulty: difficulty - Intermediate Intermediate

Nicaragua, Spain

That literacy will directly contribute to the health and well being of a people few can doubt. But are a literate people more likely to care for the environment? One man thinks so, and has started a grassroots neighbors teaching neighbors project for the good of both la gente y la tierra.
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Caption 71 [es]: de catorce, quince años no saben escribir la palabra "amor,"
Caption 71 [en]: fourteen, fifteen years old don't know how to write the word "love,"

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